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DYNAMIC THEORY [2 records]

Record 1 2012-10-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychology (General)
DEF

An aspect of Gestalt psychology stressed by Köhler, according to which dynamic conditions, rather than structural, in the sensory and central fields, determine the process taking place in these fields.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie (Généralités)

Spanish

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Record 2 2001-10-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chemical Elements and Compounds
  • Air Pollution
DEF

An hypothesis that ozone depletion is caused by dynamic rather than a chemical processes.

CONT

The Antarctic researchers claim their measurements show "no evidence for the kind of upward motion needed to support the dynamical theory. We believe a chemical mechanism is fundamentally responsible for the formation of the hole", they said.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Éléments et composés chimiques
  • Pollution de l'air
DEF

Hypothèse selon laquelle des processus dynamiques, plutôt que des processus chimiques, seraient à l'origine de l'appauvrissement de la couche d'ozone.

OBS

Selon cette hypothèse, les transports atmosphériques causeraient une disparition momentanée et localisée de l'ozone.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Elementos y compuestos químicos
  • Contaminación del aire
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